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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: Veekshanam Collective, a Telugu monthly journal on political economy and society, condemned the case foisted against its editor N Venugopal Rao under various sections of the IPC including Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), Telangana Public Security Act and others. “In fact, it is common knowledge that Venugopal is not associated with Virasam since 2009 after controversy on an article he wrote at that time. Since then, he is not member of any organization and running his own monthly journal fulltime,” it added. In response to the police’s charges that Venugopal was absconding, the publication said, “He has been writing a fortnightly column in a popular Telugu daily and runs his own monthly magazine. Yet, the police dared to show him as “absconding” and it only shows the conspiratorial attitude of the police..